The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-09-21

So the unexpected, the supposedly impossi-
Bile, has happened. Our breath halts To speak
il, aud the ink refuses TO flow from the pom 10
write IL. Tue class hatred OF tho Citizens
Association has tr.umphed over the most
evident demands OF humanity. The SUI
preIne Court at Ottawa, the legal instrument
OF the money ar.stocracy. this IN rnng acqDi-
esced in the terrible verdict OF the lower
court, which dooms To martyrlom seven
~ our best coinredes-t0 die for the cause al
tho working lopulace-and the eighth To hf-
teen wears OF penal servitude. The punish
ment they arc TO suffer is not the penalty for
the murder OF the police oticsrs who fell at the
Haynnrket. The spirit of modern time 10 Ca TO
stranded on the galows Their blood be upon
us and upon our children" l. tho answer which
the ruling class makes TO our representative
the same reply which tho Pharisees shrieked
back to the followers OF Jesus Christ, Of Nam
reth We, however the followers of Spies
and his companions, will not cry re-
venge' at an inopportune time, but do
all that there remains tn DO done. Coup-
sci for the defense will ask for n rehea airing
Then the Governor will be asked for stay OF
execution. Incidentally steps m II be takon T.
bring the case before the Federal Suprt me
Court. ana any individual member OF the co0rt
asked 10 grant n supersedeas We hope in spite
OF olli And when NIL hope is vain we still hope
and wait, confidently, the approaching day @!
better understanding. Ii il IL yet night
There is nothing very savage or bloodthrsty
in this editorial, though there Is a remote
reference 10 the possibility of revenge meas
ures if the mandate of the law is executed
A DENVER disI atch says that negro cook
named Joe Dixon, employed at the Hotel
Beaumont in Ouray, Col, who had fame el
grievance against Miss Ella Day, waitress,
shot her four times with large revolver,
three balls taking effect in her arms and the
other in her breast Dixon was arrested and
jailel Early the following morning mob
went to the jail for the purpose of lynching
the negro. They captured the guard, but
failed 20 gain an entrance They then
saturated parts of the building with coal-oil
and set il aflre. The Fire Department came
out and, in an attempt to exunguish the
flames, drowned the negro whose body was
roasted in the burning building. The wound
ed girl Is not expected TO recover.
lie amnesty movement on behalf OF the
anarchists, TO take the shape Of monster pc
tition 10 Governor Osiesby, is just now ex.
ting peculiar interest on account of the at
tltude which the condemned men have as
sumed toward it. says Chicago specia'. he
association met on Thursday evening, with
President Oliver in the chair Captain Black,
who is one of tho Vice Presidents of the so
ciety, was present, and made speech, in
which, speaking for the anarchists, he ap-
PAONSA VI AtiC plbIpehA W alptpoNh N'oNCihoi
Oglesby for clemency, and gave his sanction
to the following form of petition:
To His Excellency Richerd j. Oglesby, Gov
ernor of the State of Illinois
The undersigned, believing that in any case
involving life humanity and the state are bet
ter served by mercy than by the rigorous exc
cution OF u sentence, the Justice of which is
questioned by many OF our people, respectfully
but urgently bespeHk the exercise Of executive
clenency by your EXcellency ia behalf of Au-
gust Spies, Michael Schwab, Oscar Neebe, Al
bert X. Parsons, Samuel fielden, Adolph
Fischer, Louis Lingg, and George Engel, being
persuaded that such action ON your part viii
conduce TO the peace of the State.
The friends of the condemned men expect
to obtain 80, 600 siSners in Cook County, l00,-
coo in the State and 80 eco in the United
States This Is a hercuean task, but those
who have the work in hand affirm their belief
that it will be accomplished On each of the
blank petitions is the headline: "This petit
tion must be at headquarters Amnesty Asso-
citation Nov. /, 1884,"